Maher Abd al-Rashid

Maher Abd al-Rashid (1942-29 June 2014) was a Lieutenant General of the Iraqi Army who fought in the Iran-Iraq War, Gulf War, and Iraq War.

Biography
Maher Abd al-Rashid was born in Tikrit, Iraq in 1942, and became a Lt. General in the Iraqi Army. Al-Rashid was known as "one of the dumbest generals in the Iraqi army", as high losses in the Iran-Iraq War were blamed on Al-Rashid (who in turn blamed President Saddam Hussein). After the war he was one of the generals who was placed under house arrest to prevent any experienced generals from the conflict from attempting a coup.

In 2003, during the Iraq War, Al-Rashid led the Southern Command of the Iraqi Army, but was captured in Tikrit that year. In 2008 he was released and lived in the desert around Tikrit, and died of a stroke in 2014.